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Moculta Phosphate Quarry (Klemm's Quarry), Angaston, Barossa Valley, North Mt Lofty Ranges, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Australia

Latitude: 34°28'39"S
Longitude: 139°5'25"E
An abanoned phosphate quarry/mine located 5 km NE of Angaston.

Mineral List

Aldermanite (TL)
'Apatite'
Aurorite
Baryte
Beraunite
Cacoxenite
Calcioferrite
Childrenite
Crandallite
Cyrilovite
Dufrénite
Fluellite
Fluorapatite
var: Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite
Goethite
Gorceixite
'Halloysite'
Hausmannite ?
Hematite
Jarosite
Leucophosphite
'Limonite'
Meurigite-Na
Minyulite
Mitridatite
Muscovite
Natrodufrénite
Perhamite
Phosphophyllite ?
Pyrite
Pyrolusite ?
Quartz
Rockbridgeite
Saponite
Strengite
Thomsonite-Ca
Tinticite
Turquoise
Variscite
Vermiculite
Vivianite
Wavellite


42 entries listed. 38 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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References

- Segnit, E. R., Watts, J. A. & Peisley, V. (1981): Mineralogy of the rock phosphate deposit at Moculta, South Australia. Austral. Mineral. 1 (35), 179-186.
- Henderson, W. A., jr. & Peisley, V. (1985): Calcioferrite from the Moculta quarry near Angaston, South Australia. Mineral. Rec. 16, 477-480.
- Kampf A.R. (1977). Minyulite: its atomic arrangement, American Mineralogist, 62, 256-262.
- Mills, S. J. (2003): A note on perhamite from the Moculta (Klemms) phosphate quarry, South Australia. Austral. J. Mineral. 9, 43-45.

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